The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-05-06
SUPERIOR 30 THE HIGH SCHOOL
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manual training school is a good thing in
theory.
Now let us see to what extent it is good
in practice. We have, before us, a state
ment Of school Of this kind located in
Chicago.
The Manual Training School Is not con
Quoted on free principle. A tuition fee
/ is charged for each student with the ex-
ception oftwenty pupils admitted this year
the fee is paid individually. Three years
study is necessary to complete the course.
/ OF the seyenty-two who entered the first
! junior class, twenty-seyen remained to
I graduate. Ninety-eight entered the junior
/ class last September. None under Il years
! Of age are admitted. No candidates are
admitted to the school who cannot pass a
fair examination in the ordinary English
subjects. \ boy must have too, certif-
cate of COED moral character from some
responsible person. The penalty Of any
improperly in conduct is dismissal from
the school.
The first manual work boy does when
lie begins the course is in the wool1 roem
There he learns various branches Of the
carpenters trade, joinery, wood turning,
and pattern making. He learns not oslly
the use of tools but their proper care.
Each boy furnishes his own kit and his
own tool drawer Extra tools are sup
piled If needed, but the student is made re-
sponsible for them. Recently the boys
were at work on picture frames, tables,
hammer handles and the wood parts Of
other tools. In the second year the pupil Is
put in the foundry and blacksmith shop.
No better hammers and screw drivers can
be fond in Chicago than are made by tie
lads. The most expert workman can ut
out no smoother pieces of casting than
Some they show. In the senior year the
students get into the machine shop. By
that time they are able TO make and put to-
gether steam engine. Three were CON
structed in the school last year, and three
will be made this.
The work of making an engine begins in
the drawing room. Every stroke Of the
pencil is maze by actual measurement even
the drawing Of bolt-head. The scholars
draw the plans for the patterns and then
make the patterns.
The wood room contains thirty-nine cab
met makers benches, twenty-four speed
lathes, a circular saw, scroll saw, boring
machine. planer, grindstone, shoot plane,
bench lathe, and general tools sufficient TOR
the use of ninety-six boys. In the foundry
are two furnaces, crucibles, troughs, TASKS,
trowels, Hammers, sieYes, and other appar-
atus, so that sixty-six boys can work at
once In the forge they can get smut on
their faces together, toe, at the same time.
There are twenty four forges, twenty-three
anvilF, one emery wheel, one shear, three
yises, one blower, two exhaust fans, tengs,
sledges, hammers, fullers, and all the
other tools required to transform clean
skinned youths into the sootiest of black
smiths.
The machine shop has seven 1s-ineh, 6
foot bed engine lathes. There is also an
engine lathe with 16-inch swing and $
foot bed. There are two speed lathes, a
planer with 6 foot bed, shaper, drill. grind
stone. fifteen benches, fifteen yises, chueks,
boring bars, taps, dies, chisels, files and
other tools-enough for % amateur ma
chinists.
The boy who goes through three years
course in this training school not only at
tains intellectual development, but gains
comprehension Of essential branches of
knowledge far superior to those of the
high school pupil. So thorough is the
training here that graduates who desire to
pursue a higher grade of education are adj
mitted, on recommendation OF the directors.
without examination and free Of conditions
to several of the colleges and universities
of mechanics and engineering in the United
States
One of the teachers at this Chicago
school said:
s'Prof r. IL. Thurston Of Sibley College.
Cornell University, wrote to me recently
that if we could send him as good spcei-
mems Of boy development as we have al
ready forwarded, they'd be glad to get
them. The professor of mechanical engi-
neering AT Perdue University, Lafayette,
Ind. also wrote to me about one of our
graduates who is there: If you can send
rs any more boys like this one. he says,
we shall be mighty glad to get them. l
believe we have struck the key note for the
practical education of boys i'll the system
of the Manual Training School. It en-
bodies at once the education of the hand to
skill and the brain to directive intelligence.
There come the boys down to lunch.
Their dining room is in the basement.
They have made all the tables themselves.
THE MEAN MAN.
Sometimes wonder what a mean man